1) One of the reasons I read slash is that I like male bodies. I'm a mostly straight woman, though I have taken a few vacations in Lesbos and don't completely rule out the possibility of this in the future. Taking a male body and distending the belly and breasts in pregnancy and putting it through all the complaints of pregnancy is like the Anti-Hot to me.
2) I really think that if the Sufficiently Advanced Technology (magickal or otherwise) is of a high enough level to make it possible for people of the same sex to have their own children together, the Sufficiently Advanced Technology would also be of a high enough level that this could be done outside the human body. For instance, there are uterine replicators in Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan series, and there is a whole world, Athos, on which there are no women. They use cloned ovaries to provide eggs, so the babies aren't the actual product of two men, but...they have babies, without women. Because Lois thinks that it would actually be harder to make babies out of sperm and sperm than to simply make a place where babies can grow, I suspect--that seems logical to me. And I'm sure magick could make it possible for an egg to become a sperm or vice versa, but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to create a container in which a baby could grow magickally.
3) I really don't like reading about the problems of pregnancy in fic. I know more than I want to know about it in real life and I find it utterly squicktastic.
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Reasons I don't like MPreg
Date: 2006-06-03 04:25 pm (UTC)2) I really think that if the Sufficiently Advanced Technology (magickal or otherwise) is of a high enough level to make it possible for people of the same sex to have their own children together, the Sufficiently Advanced Technology would also be of a high enough level that this could be done outside the human body. For instance, there are uterine replicators in Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan series, and there is a whole world, Athos, on which there are no women. They use cloned ovaries to provide eggs, so the babies aren't the actual product of two men, but...they have babies, without women. Because Lois thinks that it would actually be harder to make babies out of sperm and sperm than to simply make a place where babies can grow, I suspect--that seems logical to me. And I'm sure magick could make it possible for an egg to become a sperm or vice versa, but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to create a container in which a baby could grow magickally.
3) I really don't like reading about the problems of pregnancy in fic. I know more than I want to know about it in real life and I find it utterly squicktastic.